Hungarian Refugee Students in Belgium after the Revolution of 1956: The Leuven Case
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Date
2022
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KUL Publishing House
Abstract
Students played a prominent role in the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and after its bloody suppression, many of them emigrated to the West from November of the same year to save their lives. This article presents the fate of a small Hungarian refugee community of the 1956 revolution, focusing especially on those students who arrived in Leuven, Belgium. Since the Catholic University of Leuven gave an outstanding opportunity to those refugee students who intended to pursue their already started studies in Belgium, it is not a coincidence that many have chosen Leuven deliberately. The present article discloses the different institutes and prominent persons who contributed considerably to the success of the refugee students.
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Hungarian revolution of 1956, refugee students, Leuven, Collegium Hungaricum
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"The Exile History Review", 2022, No. 1, pp. 37-45